M R Weeks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 25134 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M R Weeks |
| PRENOMES | M R |
| SOBRENOME | Weeks |
| ASSINATURA | WEEKS M R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute for Community Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7493-0276 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Using participatory system dynamics learning to support Ryan White Planning Council priority setting and resource allocations
Barriers to drug treatment in police diversion programs and drug courts
Drug treatment courts and police diversion programs are designed to divert people away from incarceration and into drug treatment. This article explores barriers in linking people who use drugs (PWUD) into drug treatment facilities in urban, suburban, and rural areas of Connecticut, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. Between December 2018 and March 2020, study teams in the three states conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with key informants invol…
The Impact of Perceptions of Community Stigma on Utilization of HIV Care Services
Managing the risk of intimacy
It is well known that concerns about sexual risk tend to decline among people in intimate relationships where there is established commitment and trust. In the context of relationships at increased risk for HIV transmission, interactions involving disclosure and partner responsiveness are key to maintaining intimacy and physical safety. This paper explores concepts of risk and sexual intimacy articulated by a community sample of 30 people living …
Overlooked Threats to Respondent Driven Sampling Estimators
Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling to Examine the Local HIV Test and Treatment Care Continuum in Order to Reduce Community Viral Load
Highlights Participatory system dynamics modeling helps improve the HIV service system to reduce the epidemic. We engaged local stakeholders to critique their HIV service system using system dynamics modeling. Participants showed enhanced communication and consensus about systems understanding and solutions
Indigenous HIV Prevention Beliefs and Practices Among Low-Earning Chinese Sex Workers as Context for Introducing Female Condoms and Other Novel Prevention Options
New interventions to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) among female sex workers are introduced into the context of women's existing prevention beliefs and practices. These indigenous practices affected implementation of our program to introduce female condoms to women in sex-work establishments in southern China. We used ethnographic field observations and in-depth interviews to document common prevention methods women reported…
Female Condom Use and Adoption Among Men and Women in a General Low-Income Urban U.S. Population
A qualitative analysis of peer recruitment pressures in respondent driven sampling
Translation of the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) for Implementation in Outpatient Drug Treatment Clinics
Scientific literature increasingly calls for studies to translate evidence-based interventions into real-world contexts balancing fidelity to the original design and fit to the new setting. The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) is a health promotion intervention originally designed to train active drug users to become Peer Health Advocates. A theoretically driven approach was used to adapt RAP to fit implementation in outpatient methadone treatmen…
Participant and Staff Experiences in a Peer-Delivered HIV Intervention with Injection Drug Users
We explore ethical issues faced by investigators as they conduct research as part of a peer-delivered HIV/AIDS risk reduction program for injection drug users (IDUs). Staff and participant experiences in peer-delivered interventions among IDUs have come under scrutiny by ethics researchers because of their potential to inadvertently and negatively impact participant rehabilitation due to continued engagement with drug-using networks during the co…
What is "Support" in Supportive Housing
Supportive housing programs are proposed as a way of increasing housing access and stability for the chronically homeless, improving access to needed services, and decreasing vulnerability to HIV and other diseases. Little is known about residents' understandings of and experiences with different models of supportive housing and how they fit within residents' broader strategies to maintain housing. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 …
The Impact of Information About the Female Condom on Female Condom Use Among Males and Females from a US Urban Community
Female condom use in the rural sex industry in China
Changes in sexual attitudes and behaviors and resurgence of the sex industry in China have increased concerns about HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STI) epidemics. Little attention has been paid to the significant and growing sex industry in rural China. Promotion of barrier protection in this context is most effective to prevent STIs and pregnancy. The female condom (FC) is a barrier method that gives women more autonomy in its app…
Social psychological dynamics of enhanced HIV risk reduction among peer interventionists
The authors present a model of interactive social psychological and relational feedback processes leading to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction behavior change among active drug users trained as Peer Health Advocates (PHAs). The model is supported by data from qualitative interviews with PHAs and members of their drug‐using networks in the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project. Results suggest three mutually reinforcing social p…
A Dynamic Social Systems Model for Considering Structural Factors in HIV Prevention and Detection
Altruism and Peer-Led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users
Peer-delivered HIV prevention and intervention programs play an important role in halting the spread of HIV. Rigorous scientific analysis of the aforementioned programs has focused on the immediate reduction of risk-related behaviors among the target populations. In our longitudinal study of the Risk Avoidance Partnership Peer Intervention for HIV, we assessed the long-term behavioral effects of a peer-led HIV intervention project with active dru…
Hustling and Housing
Research has documented illicit drug users' participation in the informal and drug economies as a result of barriers in obtaining legitimate sources of work and income. Less research has explored ways drug users utilize income from various sources to obtain shelter and meet other basic needs. This paper draws on longitudinal qualitative interviews that were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users in various housed or homeless statuses to…
A Little Thing Called Love
HIV prevention approaches must recognize the importance of love and the needs that primary relationships satisfy if they are to be considered relevant by those at greatest risk. Negotiated safety and similar strategies may be an important risk reduction tool for heterosexuals, particularly those in HIV-affected relationships, but their potential effectiveness may vary
Changing Drug Users' Risk Environments
Peer delivered, social oriented HIV prevention intervention designs are increasingly popular for addressing broader contexts of health risk beyond a focus on individual factors. Such interventions have the potential to affect multiple social levels of risk and change, including at the individual, network, and community levels, and reflect social ecological principles of interaction across social levels over time. The iterative and feedback dynami…
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
Opportunities for Woman-Initiated HIV Prevention Methods among Female Sex Workers in Southern China
Rapid changes in China over the past two decades have led to significant problems associated with population migration and changing social attitudes, including a growing sex industry and concurrent increases in STIs and HIV. This article reports results of an exploratory study of microbicide acceptability and readiness and current HIV prevention efforts among female sex workers in two rural and one urban town in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces in so…
If I Didn't Have HIV, I'd Be Dead Now
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the experiences of lower income, urban, HIV-positive drug users. The authors asked 60 participants about HIV risk behaviors, the impact of HIV on their lives, religious beliefs, life plans, relationships, and work-related issues both prior to and since diagnosis. They developed a theoretical framework based on illness narratives and ambiguous loss theories. Themes pertaining to both physical and emotiona…
Unintended consequences of using an oral HIV test on HIV knowledge
This study assessed the effects of oral HIV testing on the belief that HIV can be transmitted in saliva and on overall AIDS knowledge. A sample of current or former street drug users (N = 155) was recruited to complete a survey of HIV risk behaviour at two points in time. The survey included three items that assessed beliefs in the possible transmission of HIV through saliva. Among the 80 participants who received oral HIV testing at baseline, ac…
Researcher Roles and Research Partnerships
chapter 1 Introduction (LeCompte and Schensul) chapter 2 1. RESEARCHER ROLES (LeCompte) Introduction chapter 3 The Embedded Contexts and Multiple Roles of Ethnographic Work chapter 4 The Stereotype of Scientific Neutrality chapter 5 Creating Cover Stories chapter 6 Coping with Reactions in the Field: Personal, Physical and Background Characteristics of the Ethnographer chapter 7 Coping with Associations in the Field: Affiliations, Sponsorships an…
Aids and the IV drug user
A Little Thing Called Love
HIV prevention approaches must recognize the importance of love and the needs that primary relationships satisfy if they are to be considered relevant by those at greatest risk. Negotiated safety and similar strategies may be an important risk reduction tool for heterosexuals, particularly those in HIV-affected relationships, but their potential effectiveness may vary
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
If I Didn't Have HIV, I'd Be Dead Now
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the experiences of lower income, urban, HIV-positive drug users. The authors asked 60 participants about HIV risk behaviors, the impact of HIV on their lives, religious beliefs, life plans, relationships, and work-related issues both prior to and since diagnosis. They developed a theoretical framework based on illness narratives and ambiguous loss theories. Themes pertaining to both physical and emotiona…
War Stories
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk beha…
Changing Drug Users' Risk Environments
Peer delivered, social oriented HIV prevention intervention designs are increasingly popular for addressing broader contexts of health risk beyond a focus on individual factors. Such interventions have the potential to affect multiple social levels of risk and change, including at the individual, network, and community levels, and reflect social ecological principles of interaction across social levels over time. The iterative and feedback dynami…
Changing the environment of aids risk
This paper reports findings from a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study designed to test the hypothesis that environmental changes, such as the enactment of laws to increase the accessibility of sterile syringes, including syringe exchange and pharmacy sale of syringes without a prescription, will lower the frequency of HIV risk and the prevalence of HIV among street drug users. Project COPE, a study of AIDS risk and risk prevention, col…
Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling to Examine the Local HIV Test and Treatment Care Continuum in Order to Reduce Community Viral Load
Highlights Participatory system dynamics modeling helps improve the HIV service system to reduce the epidemic. We engaged local stakeholders to critique their HIV service system using system dynamics modeling. Participants showed enhanced communication and consensus about systems understanding and solutions
Altruism and Peer-Led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users
Peer-delivered HIV prevention and intervention programs play an important role in halting the spread of HIV. Rigorous scientific analysis of the aforementioned programs has focused on the immediate reduction of risk-related behaviors among the target populations. In our longitudinal study of the Risk Avoidance Partnership Peer Intervention for HIV, we assessed the long-term behavioral effects of a peer-led HIV intervention project with active dru…
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
Preventing Aids in Communities of Color
Virtuous wives and kind mothers
Opportunities for Woman-Initiated HIV Prevention Methods among Female Sex Workers in Southern China
Rapid changes in China over the past two decades have led to significant problems associated with population migration and changing social attitudes, including a growing sex industry and concurrent increases in STIs and HIV. This article reports results of an exploratory study of microbicide acceptability and readiness and current HIV prevention efforts among female sex workers in two rural and one urban town in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces in so…
The Impact of Perceptions of Community Stigma on Utilization of HIV Care Services
Participant and Staff Experiences in a Peer-Delivered HIV Intervention with Injection Drug Users
We explore ethical issues faced by investigators as they conduct research as part of a peer-delivered HIV/AIDS risk reduction program for injection drug users (IDUs). Staff and participant experiences in peer-delivered interventions among IDUs have come under scrutiny by ethics researchers because of their potential to inadvertently and negatively impact participant rehabilitation due to continued engagement with drug-using networks during the co…
High on illy
This paper reports findings from a one‐year project designed to monitor emergent drug use and health‐risk patterns in Hartford, CT. Using ethnography, survey, and literature review as primary research methods, the project assessed patterns of drug consumption and associated HIV and other health risks. The project identified “illy,” marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, as an emergent drug threat to public health in Hartford. Features of illy consu…
Virtuous wives and kind mothers
Aids and the IV drug user
Aids Prevention and The African–American Injection Drug User
Preventing Aids in Communities of Color
Changing the environment of aids risk
This paper reports findings from a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study designed to test the hypothesis that environmental changes, such as the enactment of laws to increase the accessibility of sterile syringes, including syringe exchange and pharmacy sale of syringes without a prescription, will lower the frequency of HIV risk and the prevalence of HIV among street drug users. Project COPE, a study of AIDS risk and risk prevention, col…
High on illy
This paper reports findings from a one‐year project designed to monitor emergent drug use and health‐risk patterns in Hartford, CT. Using ethnography, survey, and literature review as primary research methods, the project assessed patterns of drug consumption and associated HIV and other health risks. The project identified “illy,” marijuana soaked in embalming fluid, as an emergent drug threat to public health in Hartford. Features of illy consu…
War Stories
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk beha…
Social Networks of Drug Users in High-Risk Sites
Unintended consequences of using an oral HIV test on HIV knowledge
This study assessed the effects of oral HIV testing on the belief that HIV can be transmitted in saliva and on overall AIDS knowledge. A sample of current or former street drug users (N = 155) was recruited to complete a survey of HIV risk behaviour at two points in time. The survey included three items that assessed beliefs in the possible transmission of HIV through saliva. Among the 80 participants who received oral HIV testing at baseline, ac…
Nobody gives a damn if I live or die
Drawing on the tenets of critical medical anthropology, this article illustrates the relation between violence, drug use, prostitution, and HIV risk in a group of 35 impoverished women living in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut. The study presented here provides an illustration of the role prostitution plays in the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic as conceptualized by Singer (1996). By focusing on the life experiences of women …
If I Didn't Have HIV, I'd Be Dead Now
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the experiences of lower income, urban, HIV-positive drug users. The authors asked 60 participants about HIV risk behaviors, the impact of HIV on their lives, religious beliefs, life plans, relationships, and work-related issues both prior to and since diagnosis. They developed a theoretical framework based on illness narratives and ambiguous loss theories. Themes pertaining to both physical and emotiona…
Opportunities for Woman-Initiated HIV Prevention Methods among Female Sex Workers in Southern China
Rapid changes in China over the past two decades have led to significant problems associated with population migration and changing social attitudes, including a growing sex industry and concurrent increases in STIs and HIV. This article reports results of an exploratory study of microbicide acceptability and readiness and current HIV prevention efforts among female sex workers in two rural and one urban town in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces in so…
Structural and Personal Factors Related to Access to Housing and Housing Stability among Urban Drug Users in Hartford, Connecticut
Several policies criminalizing drug use significantly impact drug users' access to housing. This article explores the impact of housing policies on active drug users' access to housing and structural and personal factors related to their homelessness and housing stability. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users at baseline, three and six months. Participants were purposively sampled to reflect a variety of ho…
Hustling and Housing
Research has documented illicit drug users' participation in the informal and drug economies as a result of barriers in obtaining legitimate sources of work and income. Less research has explored ways drug users utilize income from various sources to obtain shelter and meet other basic needs. This paper draws on longitudinal qualitative interviews that were conducted with 65 active cocaine or heroin users in various housed or homeless statuses to…
A Little Thing Called Love
HIV prevention approaches must recognize the importance of love and the needs that primary relationships satisfy if they are to be considered relevant by those at greatest risk. Negotiated safety and similar strategies may be an important risk reduction tool for heterosexuals, particularly those in HIV-affected relationships, but their potential effectiveness may vary
Changing Drug Users' Risk Environments
Peer delivered, social oriented HIV prevention intervention designs are increasingly popular for addressing broader contexts of health risk beyond a focus on individual factors. Such interventions have the potential to affect multiple social levels of risk and change, including at the individual, network, and community levels, and reflect social ecological principles of interaction across social levels over time. The iterative and feedback dynami…
A Dynamic Social Systems Model for Considering Structural Factors in HIV Prevention and Detection
Altruism and Peer-Led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users
Peer-delivered HIV prevention and intervention programs play an important role in halting the spread of HIV. Rigorous scientific analysis of the aforementioned programs has focused on the immediate reduction of risk-related behaviors among the target populations. In our longitudinal study of the Risk Avoidance Partnership Peer Intervention for HIV, we assessed the long-term behavioral effects of a peer-led HIV intervention project with active dru…
Female condom use in the rural sex industry in China
Changes in sexual attitudes and behaviors and resurgence of the sex industry in China have increased concerns about HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STI) epidemics. Little attention has been paid to the significant and growing sex industry in rural China. Promotion of barrier protection in this context is most effective to prevent STIs and pregnancy. The female condom (FC) is a barrier method that gives women more autonomy in its app…
Social psychological dynamics of enhanced HIV risk reduction among peer interventionists
The authors present a model of interactive social psychological and relational feedback processes leading to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction behavior change among active drug users trained as Peer Health Advocates (PHAs). The model is supported by data from qualitative interviews with PHAs and members of their drug‐using networks in the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project. Results suggest three mutually reinforcing social p…
The Impact of Information About the Female Condom on Female Condom Use Among Males and Females from a US Urban Community
What is "Support" in Supportive Housing
Supportive housing programs are proposed as a way of increasing housing access and stability for the chronically homeless, improving access to needed services, and decreasing vulnerability to HIV and other diseases. Little is known about residents' understandings of and experiences with different models of supportive housing and how they fit within residents' broader strategies to maintain housing. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 …
Participant and Staff Experiences in a Peer-Delivered HIV Intervention with Injection Drug Users
We explore ethical issues faced by investigators as they conduct research as part of a peer-delivered HIV/AIDS risk reduction program for injection drug users (IDUs). Staff and participant experiences in peer-delivered interventions among IDUs have come under scrutiny by ethics researchers because of their potential to inadvertently and negatively impact participant rehabilitation due to continued engagement with drug-using networks during the co…
Female Condom Use and Adoption Among Men and Women in a General Low-Income Urban U.S. Population
A qualitative analysis of peer recruitment pressures in respondent driven sampling
Medicine (28 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (23 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 obras) · Family medicine (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Psychiatry (13 obras) · Environmental health (11 obras) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (11 obras)